This really reminds me of the web as I remember it from the mid-to-late 90's; I feel like I'm just a click away from the old deoxy.org, if anyone remembers that. (Don't go there now; the domain appears to have been long-ago hijacked.)
I guess we visited different parts. I don't remember any videos of people burning their dicks off on the early internet.
or kittens on encyclopediabrittanica
I loved the deoxy site, it was one of my favorites :-) Next to the site and writings of the esoteric Brother Blue, who was he? It eventually caused me to go in a reality tunnel for a few years. It was a fascinating and puzzling experience similar as to what was described in Cosmic Trigger III by R.A. Wilson.